Community series: Dr Lorena Gazzotti and Professor Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya
- 👤 Speaker: Dr Lorena Gazzotti and Professor Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya
- 📅 Date & Time: Friday 21 October 2022, 18:00 - 19:00
- 📍 Venue: Lucy Cavendish College, Wood-Legh Room, Strathaird
Abstract
Join the first panel discussion of our ‘Community’ series in occasion of Black History Day.
The 2022-23 academic year’s theme is ‘community’.
As a first session in the series, we are glad to have a panel of two speakers, Professor Shihan DeSilva and Dr Lorena Gazzotti on Black History Day.
The title of presentation by Professor Shihan DeSilva is “Collective Memories of an Afro-diasporic Community in Sri Lanka”.
“Your papers don’t mean anything: policing blackness at the Spanish-Moroccan border” is the title of presentation by Dr Lorena Gazzotti.
The talk will start at 6 pm and will comprise of 40 minutes of presentation (approximately 20 minutes by each presenter) followed by 15 minutes of discussion.
Read more and register at https://www.lucy.cam.ac.uk/events/community-panel-discussion-black-history-day
Series This talk is part of the Lucy Cavendish College series.
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Dr Lorena Gazzotti and Professor Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya
Friday 21 October 2022, 18:00-19:00